Transform Fest | Seiwert, Arrington/Ndu/Zomorodinia, Fogbeast

Amy Seiwert's Imagery - Larry Arrington/Sandra Lawson Ndu/Minoosh Zomorodinia - Fogbeast
YBCA Forum
Sat, Sep 16, 8PM
Thu, Sep 21, 8PM
See more at https://ybca.org/whats-on/transform-program-c
Amy Seiwert's Imagery is a contemporary ballet company in San Francisco that believes that ballet is an expressive and vital voice relevant to our times. Its mission is to explode preconceptions about what ballet is and can be. Seiwert will create an outlet for immigrant stories performed in a series of solos and duets, with the audience placed on all sides. Now is the time for the quiet stories to be heard, for the "other" not to be an abstraction, but to have a voice.
Larry Arrington is a dance artist, Sandra Lawson Ndu is a musician based in Oakland, and Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born artist working in photography, video, performance, and installation. These collaborators will turn to magic, imagination, and story, digging into the soil to unearth gestating potential. What stories do we belong to? What magic are we using to create contexts that produce these questions of citizenship? Stories create fear, but they also create magic.
Fogbeast is an underground dance-theater organization working in site-specific installation, integration of voice and text, and athletic dancing. Fogbeast will consider citizenship literally and poetically in movement and song. What are the effects of complacency and apathy for our networks of belonging? If citizenship is a fluid identity, as in matter that can change in state from liquid to solid, perhaps citizenship can crystallize into a hard line or a thick bureaucracy. Does citizenship denote active participation?
Part of: TRANSFORM FEST
Sep 14 -- Sep 23 2017
Transform is YBCA's exciting new performance festival. Each fall and spring, we will convene leading contemporary artists for a provocative showcase of dance, music, and theater that can only happen at YBCA. For Transform Fest Fall 2017, YBCA engaged nine prolific Bay Area dance companies and choreographers to respond to the provocation, "Why Citizenship?" in one of YBCA's most ambitious dance productions ever.
Thu, Sep 14, 8PM and Fri, Sep 22, 8PM: Transform Fest | Embodiment Project & Jesse Hewit
Fri, Sep 15, 8PM and Sat, Sep 23, 8PM: Transform Fest | RAWdance & Fauxnique